Eli Gonzalez, a student at Northern Kentucky University pursuing a degree in Jazz Performance, will join the big band as a saxophonist for the Cowboy Bebop jazz tribute concert from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 29 at Withrow High School! Continue reading “Cowboy Bebop Concert Personnel: Eli Gonzalez”
Cowboy Bebop Concert Personnel – Hal Melia
Hal Melia, an assistant professor of music and director of Jazz Studies at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, will join the big band as a saxophonist for the Cowboy Bebop jazz tribute concert from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 29 at Withrow High School! Continue reading “Cowboy Bebop Concert Personnel – Hal Melia”
Cowboy Bebop Concert Personnel – Umvikeli G. Scott Jones
Umvikeli G. Scott Jones will join the big band as a trombone player for the Cowboy Bebop jazz tribute concert from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 29 at Withrow High School! Continue reading “Cowboy Bebop Concert Personnel – Umvikeli G. Scott Jones”
Cowboy Bebop Concert Personnel – Reggie Jackson
Reggie Jackson, a graduate of The Ohio State University with a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies, will join the big band as drummer for the Cowboy Bebop jazz tribute concert from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 29 at Withrow High School! Continue reading “Cowboy Bebop Concert Personnel – Reggie Jackson”
Cowboy Bebop Concert Band Leader Announced!
We are pleased to announce that Cincinnati trumpet player Mike Wade will be the band leader for the Cowboy Bebop jazz tribute concert from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29, at Withrow High School! Continue reading “Cowboy Bebop Concert Band Leader Announced!”
“We Create. The Labels Come Later”: Graham Haynes on Afrofuturistic Music
Midwest BSFA member Napoleon Maddox talks to jazz musician Graham Haynes about Afrofuturistic music ahead of IsWhat?!’s next installment of “The Deconstruction Period” at Woodward Theater on May 23.
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Black to the Future Program Wrap-Up
Last Tuesday’s “Black to the Future: Afrofuturistic Music” program at Sweet Sistah Splash was the Midwest BSFA’s first activity of the year, and we couldn’t have planned for a better group of participants! There was something electric in the air as about 20 attendees from all walks of life discussed the meaning of Afrofuturism and how it applies to music. It was the kind of experience I hope we can have many more times in the months to come!
Black to the Future: Afrofuturistic Music
Afrofuturism is an emergent literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of people of color, but also to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the past. From Sun Ra to Janelle Monae, African-Americans have experimented with music with Afrofuturistic flair. Writer Mildred Fallen (host of Deeper than Atlantis: Diggin’ In Da Crates on Soul Public Radio) and Napoleon Maddox of hip-hop jazz band IsWhat?! will explore this soundscape and its inhabitants.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 7-8:30 p.m., Sweet Sistah Splash, 1218 Sycamore St., Over-the-Rhine (Cincinnati, OH 45202)
Midwest Black Speculative Fiction Alliance 